Here is a belated post about our first joint group meeting, which is inspired by the recent blogpost of Emilia Gomez, one of our invited speakers. Before telling you about her talk, let me first give you a summary of the meeting itself. It took place at the end of October in…

The First Annual Conference of KNOWeSCAPE (TD1210) has taken place from November the 18th till November the 20th, 2013, at Aalto University, Finland. It has gathered a crowd of over 50 participants, from over 20 different countries. The program consisted of three keynote talks, given by Prof. Cassidy Sugimoto (Indiana…

Workshop, 7 November 2013 We live in a complex world. Yet complexity is hard to pin down. In fact, it is quite complex to make the notion precise, making it in some way a self-describing word. Generally, complexity is thought to exist somewhere between random and regular, and consists of…

The making of KnowEscape has been thoroughly inspired by the Places&Spaces enterprise. Now the call for the 10th Iteration is out (see http://www.scimaps.org/call/ ) and please do note the passage “Given the topic of this iteration, two types of submissions are welcome: (1) Photographs or conceptual sketches of future innovative…

The start of KnowEscape – story for the eMagazine of the eHumanities group KNAW Amsterdam COST Actions are one of the oldest instruments for funding research collaboration in Europe, and this is still something one can feel. A COST Action has money exclusively for meetings, exchange, and conferences, and reimbursement takes…

STSM = Short Term Scientific Missions belong to the most effective instruments in a COST Action. (Read more, Understand the rules – see Vademecum) The STSM coordinator for TD1210 is the Chair of the Action, Andrea Scharnhorst. In case that the home institution or the host institution of a STSM…

In a couple of days we will meet for our First Annual Conference at Aalto University in Finland. The conference features about 35 presentations, which have been all peer reviewed, and represent the wide spectrum of scientific activities and competences in the Action. We proudly welcome as keynote speakers Ginestra…

A narrative of Marcel Ausloos around his Short-term-scientific-mission in TD1210 KnowEscape to the eHumanities Group at the KNAW and encounters around a workshop on complexity-in-the-digital-humanities (see also here) It was dark, it was raining, it was cold; I pulled my suitcase with my left arm, carried my brief case with the computer…

In KnowEscape we have an unique combination of experts from vary different scientific fields. A red line and common shared interest is the discovery of structure and patterns in traces of cultural heritage. To analyze and understand human culture (past, present, future) is probably the biggest challenge for complexity research….

The movement toward Open Data and the increasing adoption of computational techniques by many scientific fields is leading to the creation of several on-line knowledge spaces. Be it the list of courses provided by a university or the collection of a library, these knowledge spaces are very diverse in nature…